Originally Posted by rickair7777

Not really lower qualifications, but people who were willing to sacrifice career expectations for west coast bases (those go more junior today due to taxes/politics, but those of us who have been around remember the opposite). During the brief hiring frenzy, AS did have a lot of people signing on to get out from under legacy regional flow/metering restrictions, who would then quickly depart for big three (which was their plan all along).



That's true, just due to the historically *very* conservative nature of AS management, and less aggressive growth over decades. Some AS pilots claim they like that, but most of us just want to drive to work vice commuting.



After having lately immersed myself in ALPA merger policy, precedent, and history I suspect that the two lists would be treated equally, without any regard for who had a recent WB windfall. Especially since the SLI process will certainly not unravel the previous SLI and segregate AS and HA pilots by previous career expectation (assuming the AS/HA SLI is already done). Both the AA and legacy HA WB slots will be protected in the usual manner and everybody else will largely be treated as DOH NB pilots.